08-02-2016, 01:16 PM
(08-02-2016, 12:49 PM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: I think he did anything and everything to make money. I have been vocal about my thoughts on him, and don't mean this to be an excuse for everything, but it did give me some perspective. I saw an interview where he said that he had never had a bank account when he was drafted by the Titans. In fact, no one in his family had ever had a checking account, and he wasn't even sure what to do with a check. He never knew anyone that had a credit card, yet he was handed one and told he could buy anything he wanted on it.
I would like to think that I would have handled the situation better, and am certain that I would have learned my lessons quicker than he did, but it had to be a big adjustment for him. You just hate that the whole strip club incident had to happen... except for that, I believe it was a lot of him hurting himself by being stupid.
That's pretty astounding that a grown man had gotten that far without ever having a bank account to his name. I guess it shows how easily you skate through school when you're athletically gifted. I'm interested in knowing whether or not anyone reached out to him or he just wasn't listening to advice he was given. I think at times people can underestimate the circumstances some of these people grow up in. I saw a show about a year ago and it was about inner city kids ages 16-20 and they were showing these kids how to grow food because the lack of fresh food in the cities and one kid not only didn't know that a carrot grew out of the ground but he never even tasted one. That's crazy to me and blew my mind that they never knew that.
Jones is an example of how you can't throw somebody in a college and expect them to take advantage of that opportunity if they don't even understand why it's a great opportunity to begin with. It was only after he was humbled and began listening to people who knew more that he was open to learning anything it seems.
